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Chapter 20 Money Demand
Chapter Objectives
By the end of this chapter, students should be able to:
- Describe Friedman’s modern quantity theory of money.
- Describe the classical quantity theory.
- Describe Keynes’s liquidity preference theory and its improvements.
- Contrast the modern quantity theory with the liquidity preference theory.